General Meeting 24th June 2015

Islington ITA calls on our Action and Coordinating
Group to agree to take a 1/8 page advert (for £110) with the slogan
"If Venezuela can build a million houses, why can't we?" in
the autumn edition of Viva Venezuela, which will be
distributed at the TUC and Labour Party conferences.

2. Mary
Wollstonecraft Statue.

ITA supports the campaign to put a statue of Mary Wollstonecraft on
Newington Green, London. The Mary on the Green campaign is part of Newington
Green Action Group. Mary Wollstonecraft has no significant memorial to her
anywhere. She advocated votes for women 100 years before the suffragettes. She
was an educational pioneer and the first woman to publicly argue for
education for girls. Aged 24, she set up a girls' school in Newington Green. After
publishing books on girls' education and civil rights, she wrote 'A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman' (1792) demanding 'Justice for one half of the human
race'. She is now known as the 'Mother of Feminism'. She was a radical thinker
who debated with Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin. One of the first female
war correspondents and travel writers, she had a commitment to broader human
rights and opposed the slave trade. She is the originator of the campaign for
equality of access to education and the right to schooling. The Association
agrees to give £100 to Mary on the Green.

3. Voting
Age.

Islington
NUT welcomes the call from the SNP and the new leader of the Scottish Labour
Party for EU citizens resident in the UK and 16 and 17 year olds to
have a vote in the forthcoming EU referendum.

4. Climate
Change.

ITA recognises the
importance of the campaign to combat climate change and in particular to reduce
the levels of carbon dioxide emissions in order to keep the global temperature
rise below 2 degrees Celsius.

In order for the NUT to
become involved with the campaign this Association urges the National Executive
to:

1. Support
and promote the demonstrations in Britain called on the weekend
of November 28th/29th in London and Cardiff to coincide with the UN
Climate Summit (COP21)

2. discuss
with the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group the possibility of
organising a conference for trade unionists on the theme of campaigning against
climate change in 2016.

5. Organising to resist

This branch notes:

1. The election of a majority Tory government
in May this year.

2.The Tories plan a further £12
billion worth of welfare cuts plus continued attacks on health, education and
public services.

3.That the Tory Trade Union Bill
as outlined in the Queens Speech will create massive hurdles for public sector
workers before they can call a strike. More than 50% of a unions members must
vote in order for the ballot to be valid and at least 40% of those entitled to
strike must be in favour of the strike.

4.The Tories would not have been
elected if this criteria were applied.

5.The need for workers,
campaigners and activists to come together to debate and discuss how we
organise resistance to the Tories.

6.The rejuvenation of debate in
the Labour Party on resistance to austerity, as a result of Jeremy Corbyn
making it onto the ballot for leader.

7.The GLATUC Resisting Austerity
Conference for Trade Unionists, Councillors and activists in Islington Town
Hall on July 4th

8.The Marxism 2015 festival, held
in central London from 9th – 13th July
which will bring together 3,000 trade unionists, activists and workers from
across the world to take part in over 150 meetings and workshops, to discuss
and debate the political situation we face, and how best to organise and
resist.